Privacy & Security Resources


From time to time Perkins Coie offers educational seminars on privacy and security topics.  Handout materials from those presentations are available on this page for you and your colleagues.

Computer Security Breaches and Data Losses:  Preparing for the Inevitable
 (Seminar Presenters:  Al Gidari and Jim McCullagh, Seattle, Washington, March 26, 2008) PowerPoint Slides

Payments & Privacy Developments for the Retail & Consumer Products Industry (Seminar Presenters:  Tom Bell and Dax Hansen, Seattle, Washington, February 26, 2008) PowerPoint Slides

Privacy 101 and Ethics: An Introduction to Privacy and Data Security Laws (Seminar Presenter:  Susan Lyon; Various Locations, Spring 2009) PowerPoint Slides and Webinar Audio (March 26, 2009)

Publicly Available Resources  This is a list of publicly available resources, most at no cost, that privacy professionals may find helpful in obtaining information and tools for developing their privacy and data security programs. An earlier version of this list was created for the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) Academy in September 2009 and provided at a networking session facilitated by Mike Hintze of Microsoft and Susan Lyon of Perkins Coie LLP. This version contains supplemental resources suggested by IAPP members who attended the session and other IAPP members who contributed via comments on IAPP's Linked-In group page.

Security Breach Response Guide:  Step-by-step outline on how to respond to a security breach.  Includes:  notice triggers for various states; sample consumer notice letter (Exhibit A); contact information for agencies that likewise require notice (Exhibit B); and consumer information regarding credit freezes (Exhibit C).

Security Resources List

State Breach Notification Laws  This chart provides information regarding security breach notification legislation which has been enacted in U.S. jurisdictions. The pioneering statute on this issue, California's Security Breach Notification Act (Senate Bill No. 1386), is used as the baseline for comparisons herein.